The Transfer of Power
Launching our kids toward independence means matching their pace of maturity and slowly letting go.
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Build a Godly Relationship with Your Teen
Do you ever feel like you’re losing connection with your daughter—like the conversations are shorter, the walls are higher, and you’re not sure how to lead without pushing her away? It’s frustrating and sometimes heartbreaking when you want to guide her heart but don’t know how to break through. Trina Alleyne has a simple, Christ-centered shift that can transform your relationship and help you reconnect in a meaningful, lasting way. Watch her reel to discover what it is.
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Step Back and Let Your Kids Grow Up
Your task is to build a man out of the raw materials available in your delightful little boy, stone upon stone upon stone. This task must be your highest priority for a period of time. It will not always be required of you. Before you know it, that child at your feet will become a young man who will pack his bags and take his first halting steps into the adult world.
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Questions and Answers About Girls’ Puberty and Adolescence
Question: Dr. Dobson, my eleven-year-old girl is physically, and otherwise, way too grown up for her age, despite my concentrated efforts to keep her a kid. I don't know how to handle her disrespectfu
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Coping With Adolescent Anger
Our fifteen-year-old son literally seethes with hostility at homeat his mother and meat his sistersat the world. Believe me, we have done nothing to provoke this anger, and I don't understand what has
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Teach Kids About Jesus Early and Earnestly!
What you teach your kids in the early years is critical. Researcher George Barna confirmed what we have knownthat it becomes progressively more difficult to influence children spiritually as they grow
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Adult Children Living At Home
Question: Dr. Dobson, we have a twenty-one-year-old who is still living at home. He does not want to come under our authority and he breaks all the rules we have set up as minimum standards of behavio
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Preparing Your Kids to Resist Peer Pressure
Helping your children prepare now might save them from dangerous peer pressure they'll face later.
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A Man and His Ultimate Priority
It occurred first in 1969, when my book Dare to Discipline was being written. I was running at an incredible speed, working myself to death like every other man I knew. I was Superintendent of Youth for my church, and labored under a heavy speaking schedule. Eight or ten "unofficial" responsibilities were added to my full-time commitment at USC School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
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Why Your Teenager Is Irrational
There is often an irrationality associated with adolescence that can be terribly frustrating to parents. It is difficult at that time to reason your way out of conflict.
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Dr. James Dobson
Joe Waresak
Dr. Del Tackett
